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The Rescue of Jewish Culture after the Holocaust
(Mosaic) Diane Cole - In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the U.S. and Allied armies deployed a team, popularly known as the Monuments Men, to locate and restore to their rightful owners huge caches of European art and cultural works that had been looted by the Nazis. This group was also assigned to salvage the material artifacts that had survived the Nazi destruction of European Jewish culture: nearly three million books, manuscripts, art works, archives, Torah scrolls, ritual objects, historical records, letters, and other documents, some of them centuries old. In A Mortuary of Books: The Rescue of Jewish Culture After the Holocaust, the German scholar Elisabeth Gallas unfurls the saga of how a consortium of Jewish organizations and individuals helped deal with this material.